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Doubt it. Your tech gives you two options A) End poverty. Teach the world to sing. Have Uganda on the UN with the same clout as a first world country. B) End poor people. They don't share our values, our culture. They don't give anything to the world just take. They'll outnumber us in our...

He did go on trial; just a fairly short and messy one.

Their not mutually exsclusive. Actual nationals socialists come to power in France?:p France and the USSR divide up Central europe while Italy looks on helplessly and Britain stays mildy apathetic about the 'europe issue'.

Legions, local governors start acting more independently during upsets in Rome. British governor pushes back up to wall north of Hadrians (can't think of name) and names it after himself. Later vassalizes a few tribes in Hibernia. Gaul governor takes parts of germany after decimating a few...

I think it would be very hard for Lenin to remain in power till WW2. NEP makes slow but steady progress and Lenin keeps putting of the next stage of communism (5 more years, 10 more years etc). In the mid 30's a split party results in seizure of power by hard-liners who demand next stage of...

So change the trajectory instead then. It was unlikely for a comet to hit Earth at all, so its not that more improbable to hit somewhre else.

Rule 89: Prepare your armies, reform your government, establish your empire. The entire world order will still be upended in 10 years time because of a drably dressed engineer with a notebook and too much spare time.

Have a small war which both entangles Mexico and the USA against some euroean power. Maybe the British go for California or the Spanish or French cause some upset in the carribean. Assuming the war is a victory or inconclusive the idea that Mexico and the USA are linked together in fighting...

No, it showed him as it. I feel they were using 'creative license'.

If anyone here has BBC1 today they just played 'The Eygptian', a Spartacus style epic about various people in Pharoah Akhentens reign. Being standard fare for the time, he was shown a enlightened pre-lude to Jesus who scared those horrible pagans, and when learning he was poisoned had a...

The loss of the battle of britain. The initative was lost and Germany could no longer be fighting a series of quick, decisive wars.

Delay it long enough and a good deal of the Indians will have become farmers or ranchers and be well equipped with guns etc. Society will have continued to liberalise and your left with large mostly useless patches of terrain with a hostile, dangerous local population that the press will crucify...

They developed 6 crude nukes which were to be used in the final conclusion of a 'race war.' They have since been destroyed but have the conflict turn into a civil war with rebel tanks/army marching on the capital, and drop the nuke on the main advance. Civil war turns into genocide (by both...

Huns get slaughtered by the chinese in the second century. 4th century: Rome splits into various smaller nations, christianised barbarians in europe form proto-roman states. 5th century:Sassanid states threaten christian world, states lump toghether after intermittant border wars and fight...

I think their was a misunderstanding about 'taking eastern europe'. I meant the efforts of fixing elections, destroying independence leaders, warsaw pact etc. In general the legitimazation of the Soviet empire. With large parts of the red army cavorting about in asia this would take longer and...

If the americans were getting worked up into USSR getting a slice of Japan, how long into the invasion do you think Truman would realise this is a oppurtunity to bog the USSR down in a costly conflict. The US invades Kyushu and near Tokyo. A invasion of Tokyo fails but Kyushu is taken...

The step between moon landing and mars landing would be huge. Another situation; the soviets realising any major propoganda victory in space after the moon would be a good while away steps back and pumps the dosh into the army. The russians have a single space station with semi-regular flights...

Structurism: The belief that only limited, successful foreign wars can keep capitalist powers economy and societal structure together.

Arghh stop destroying my ideas with facts. Well I didn't know about Maos nuclear paranioa or Taiwan so i take it all back. And I don't consider the SU that agressive but if war was in the picture at all I don't imagine the SU pussyfooting around and risking china having the first strike...

If Russia got the first strike, I don't think China could do much. Russians nuke 3 large industrial cities (probably not Beijing). They also use tactical nukes on anything that is a missile base or might be a missile base as well as the larger army barracks, navy bases and military airfields...